• Editor's Choice The Doll Trilogy

    Red Stitch: Summer of the Seventeenth Doll

    Red Stitch Actors' Theatre Rear 2 Chapel Street, St Kilda, VIC, Australia
    When Ray Lawler’s play Summer of the Seventeenth Doll premiered in 1955, it was a watershed moment in Australian theatre, given its groundbreaking portrayal of distinctly Australian characters. Set in Melbourne in 1953, it features cane cutters Roo and Barney, who return to the city between harvests to spend time with Olive and Nancy.…
    Belvoir Theatre: A Mirror

    Belvoir St Theatre: Belvoir Theatre: A Mirror

    Belvoir St Theatre 25 Belvoir St, Sydney, NSW, Australia
    A SMART NEW HIT PLAY ABOUT ART VERSUS POWER Adem’s a mechanic who’s written a play and naively submitted it for consideration. He’s called to the arts council by a bureaucrat, Čelik, who suspects Adem has potential – if only he can learn to write in the state-approved, patriotic way,…
    BURGERZ

    Carriageworks: BURGERZ

    Carriageworks Sydney, NSW, Australia
    Winner of the Total Theatre Award at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe, BURGERZ has been a sell-out sensation across the world since 2018. After someone threw a burger at them and shouted a transphobic slur, performance artist Travis Alabanza became obsessed with burgers. How they are made, how they feel, and…
    BURGERZ

    Carriageworks: BURGERZ

    Carriageworks Sydney, NSW, Australia
    Winner of the Total Theatre Award at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe, BURGERZ has been a sell-out sensation across the world since 2018. After someone threw a burger at them and shouted a transphobic slur, performance artist Travis Alabanza became obsessed with burgers. How they are made, how they feel, and…
    The Book of Mormon

    JONES Theatrical Group: The Book of Mormon

    Princess Theatre, Melbourne 163 Spring St, Melbourne, VIC, Australia
    Hello! The Mormons are back! First seen in Australia in 2017, The Book of Mormon is blasphemous, scurrilous, puerile, rude, satirical – and one of the funniest, sweetest, most joyous musicals ever staged. Written by South Park creators Trey Parker and Matt Stone, with Robert Lopez, the 2011 show won…

    Emma Knights: H.M.S. Pinafore

    Piccadilly Cinemas 181 O'Connell St, North Adelaide, SA, Australia
    The rulers of the Queen's Navee are back for a 2nd year! H.M.S. Pinafore; or, The Lass That Loved a Sailor, is a comic opera in two acts (we perform it in one!), with music by Arthur Sullivan and a libretto by W. S. Gilbert. Directed by Andy Turner, a…
    Tape Face: 20

    Adelaide Fringe: Tape Face: 20

    The Garden of Unearthly Delights Rundle Park, East Terrace, Adelaide, SA, Australia
    Celebrating 20 years of Tape Face, the show celebrates where this worldwide journey began. Mime with noise, stand-up with no talking – drama with no acting. Las Vegas headliner Tape Face has become a global sensation. See the critically award-winning show that started it all. Physical comedy, mime and silent…
    Undertow

    Collective Disorder: Undertow

    21 Shepherd 21 Shepherd St, Marrickville
    A performance by Collective Disorder (previously Chronology Arts Collective). With Elizabeth Jigalin, Gideon Payten-Griffiths, Nikki Heywood, Ryuichi Fujimura and Stephen Adams. Experience the latest improvised performance from Collective Disorder: Undertow quietly traces increments of change__erupting currents__underscoring an inertia of rolling waves__we invite you to witness Live Composition__at play with elements…
    Live at the Great

    Live At Yours: Sergej Krylov x Konstantin Shamray

    The Great Synagogue 187 Elizabeth St, Sydney, NSW, Australia
    Live at Yours opens its 2026 season in luminous style — within the mood-lit splendour of Toorak Synagogue, where golden arches and soft shadows create an atmosphere of quiet wonder. Italian-based violinist Sergej Krylov, hailed by Mstislav Rostropovich as one of the five greatest violinists in the world, joins Konstantin Shamray, a Live at Yours…
    GENIUS

    Brown’s Mart Theatre: GENIUS

    Brown's Mart Theatre Festival Park, Corner Smith St & Harry Chan Ave, Darwin, NT, Australia
    A modern retelling of a centuries-old story #stillrelevanttoday. Enter the world of renowned Italian Baroque painter, Artemisia Gentileschi (1593–c.1653) as retold by street-smart, paint-splattered rising graffiti star, Miss Ella from today (2026). Artemisia, renowned for her skilful, vivid depictions of powerful, female figures, pushed boundaries, carving her own path that…
    My Brilliant Career

    Melbourne Theatre Company: My Brilliant Career

    Canberra Theatre Centre Canberra, ACT, Australia
    Hailed as a ‘funny, feminist triumph’ (The Guardian) and earning multiple five-star reviews in its sold-out 2024 Melbourne season, the joyous My Brilliant Career arrives in Canberra for a limited run. Led by the formidable Kala Gare (SIX the musical) – and featuring a dynamic cast of actor/musicians – this smash-hit musical earned critical acclaim and five…

    Griffin Theatre Company: Griffin Theatre: The Elocution of Benjamin Franklin

    Belvoir St Theatre 25 Belvoir St, Sydney, NSW, Australia
    A landmark work of Australian theatre returns to the stage where it first sprang to inglorious life. Steve J. Spears’ The Elocution of Benjamin Franklin scandalised and mesmerised in equal measure when it premiered in 1976, touring across the world and collecting awards everywhere it ventured. Now, on its 50th…